The Truth about Mental Health: Hope

It’s no secret that I am a hope junkie. I’m addicted to it.

I don’t know how people live without it.

And the truth is, Hope isn’t a drug, it’s more like an essential mineral. Our hearts and our minds and our bodies need it to survive. Sometimes, though we’re just not quite sure how or where to get it. There’s no hope label on our produce, on our books, or on the people around us.

Hope can be hard to pin down.

Hope can be slippery.

In our latest podcast we ask the questions:

What does hope even look like? How do we find it?

How do we define hope?

On the latest episode of the Life in Relationship podcast, I had the opportunity to talk about all things hope with Tanner Olson, also known as poet, speaker, and hope connoisseur, Written to Speak. Tanner’s poetry searches for hope, wrestles with hope, exudes hope, and connects the reader to hope in powerful and tangible ways.

Tanner’s breed of connecting us to hope reminds us that

Hope is warm. Hope is wide. And Hope is closer than we thought.

And if we set our hope down for a second and can’t remember where we put it, we have each other to help is find our hope once again, to make it stick, to find tomorrow.

We need hope for our mental health.

And we need reminders every day that Hope is real.

Let us get you started:

And once you’ve listened, let us know…

What is your confetti cake?

Find Tanner and his latest books, blogs, and reminders of hope on his website and social media: